The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-07-14


returned 10 Tallahassee. The guns are expected
in q few days. then the boys will be happy
-SiArke Telegraph: The pear crop this year
has been larger Than ever before In this part OF
the county. Next year We would like TO see il
still larger. The LeCunts pear s q delicious
fruit and il is easily cultivated.
-Daytona .Jouraul- The editor and his two
eldest daughters started n0rthward Monday, the
former on = business trip To Washington, ID. G.,
70 be gone only "A week OF ten days, the latter to
Iowa, where they will remain until cool weather.
In the meantime the Joarsa, is in charge of W.
W. Carter.
ST. Augustine Press: Jake McKeever (col)
has been given pension OF $24 per month from
February 81, 1887 with back pension of 81 500.
McKeever flied his claim March 1st, 1866, some
twenty-one years ago, which was rejected by
three different commissions Tor want OF proof.
About u veal ago MIR. W. H. Atkins, OF this city,
took up the Case, and with the supplementary
evidence he was able 10 get Commissioner Black
10 reopen the claim, and with new facts present
ed has now allowed Mckeever his pension.
-Kissimmee Leuler Hon. Riley johnson
was in Ia see us day or two ago, and in the
course OF conversation mentioned that his grove
blOOmed this spring and had set crop OF fruit.
1t IS now blooming again and will yield larger
crop OF late oranges than he Will get from his
spring blossoming. II our orange growers could
ascertain the cause of this strange freak, and
manage SD as 10 produce u crOp iOI suuHicf sup
meni they would make much larger returns from
summer than from fall and winter sales.
Cedar Key Guif Tie~ Active measures
are being taken by many OF our people TO encour-
age and hasten the building of the Shwannee and
Gulf Railroad to Branford. The visit OF the Sec
Rotary iO the section of the country TO be opened
has had very apparent and beneficial enect on
values well the various industries All
along the line the farmers propose TO enlarge ana
Diversity their and 4s ranidlV nOSSlDlo
get IN a position to have something TOR snip
ment. Only the road is needed to make indie
pendent men of all those living on the line or
near il.
Lake City 7ojacco Pant: DR.. J. F. Appel
continues the work al his experimental gardens,
the like ol winch cannot be shown elsewhere In
Fiorlda. His asparagus is doing spienddiy, to-
ceiher with all his garden and orchard stock.
He has "a Japan chestnut now in fruit, and va
rieiy of the choicest table grapes. His hundreds
oi choice reses and other flowers are blooming
nicely, and his dollhouse is a veritable garden OF
wonders. especially in the item of foliage plants
sumo al which il is hard to believe are simple
productions Of nature
-DeLlnd Ch,vnic6 = Mr. McCreary, who
owns two handsome groves here, committed
suicide al his home i'll Utica n Y, this week
lie goi UP in the middle of the night, wro'e a
letter 10 his children then went out in the back
yard and cut his throat He was wealthy and
CilLtD. u lDuT-yedI-OIQ CuiIu VI
+. W. Bredow OF Glenwood, was bitten by
raitiesnake last Tuesday. Whiskey was given
10 tie child Immediately, and as soon as possible
a Chicken was cut open and applied to the part.
The child is doing well and ii is thought no
damage will result from the bite.
bronson Times: Col Ira j. Carter, OF
.Iudson, is vet ginning csttOn, OF the crop OF
last year: he has been running his gins almost
steadily since last October, and has forty to
fifty bales yet 10 gin. There is talk of cedar
mill being erected al Rosewood, in the near
future- II would be paying enterprise tor the
projectors. Col. W. r. Coulter has sold some
ten or fifteen residence lots during the past
week. and still the demand is for more. These
sales are made, notwithstanding the fact that the
prices OF the lots have been advanced from two
Ia three hundred per cent. during the past SIX
months
Barlow idUance-C Courier Yet the people
oi Bartow are able to donate 81 POO to Il worthy
cause outside OF our State. This amount
Oh money and lands was raised ut the close of
Mr. j. t. Culpepper's stay Ill Barlow last week
MI CuiF'epDer is agent for the Orphans Home,
oi Macon, Ga, and the funds which are being
raised ARE 10 be applied to rebuilding the Home
The amount above shows conclusively that the
citizens of Barlow are As liberal as they
good Times are hard. of course but takln
everything into consideration, we doubt if there
Il another town in the State OF the same popu-
iaiIon which can make an equal showing.
--Titusyille Sur A Mr. Brown, of Jack
sonvIlie. connected with large bank in that
city, has been here this week TO look over the
prospects Tor starting bank and We hear he is
iayorably impressed. This institution will he
probably started this fall with one of our Oldest
anu most prominent citizens at the head Of it,.
Mr. w K Sanders informs us that on quite a
number OF the orange trees in groves at Rock
ledge and on Merritt's Island there is now
second bloom, which is quite a new feature for
the orange tree al this season of the year.
These oranges ought to bring high prices when
uiey rlpen next year.
-Fernandina Mirror MIR Burt G. Dyal Rep
rescnialiye in the Legislature from this county,
has recovered from his recent severe attack of
fyphoii fever. Mr. Dyal is quite popular in Mas
sua and his friends will be pleased to learn of his
escape from the grim monster. The Mallory Line
Il abreast of the demands of Fernandina for better
transportation facilities. On July 22d the City OF
SanAnionia will he Withdrawn from the Florida
trade and her place filled by the elegant $500
ton steamship Rio Grande This will give ship
pers and passengers an opportunity TO ship
largely and make fast time The Rio Grande
viii be the fieetesl ship running 10 Florida.
Captain Lewis will be in command
Green Cove Spring The body of John
Mclean, stiff i'll death, was found in his sail
boat anchored in Black Creek, ON Sunday last.
JuslIce kirkpatrick, acting as coroner sum
moneo jury VINO helu an inquest over the
body and returned a verdict OF death from ma
tural causes Mclean was an Englishman, who
drew pension, and, together with his wife, had
been boating for sometime upon the ST. Johns
and lis tributaries, Not long since the wife of
Mclean died while on one OF their boating trips.
Alter the burial, Mclean started out alone, and
was seen no more until on Sunday, when a
man rowed along side of the Iris and found Nc
Lean lying dead in his bunk.
Lake City Reporter. From Hon. W. T.
Weeks, OF Providence, we hear very encourag
ing crop reports of our sister county of Bradford
The Colonel says the crop has made wonderful
improvement in the last two weeks, and that q
large percentage OF the farmers will have corn
enough fOr two years supply The amount Of
wages being paid 10 clgar-makers is increasing,
and we expect, ere another season, to see thou
sands of dollars paid out weekly for labor and
material. The Methodists have officially ten
dered the Use of their church 10 the Presbyte-
mans, pending the erection of the latters church,
N return for the like courtesy in time past
The recent rains, we learn have damaged the
large peach crop OF Columbia county, causing
them 10 split open and fall of.
-Tayares Herald. The Orange Belt railway
has constructed q shed al Oakland, 110x22, that
will accommodate eight passenger cars The
rOoi will be overlaid with asbestos and then Gov
cred with cement A blacksmith shop, 35x4O. is
in process Of construction, and the foundations
have been laid for new car-shop, 100x25 feet
Twenty men are employed on these buildings
which adjuncts of the main shops near nj
hand. The artesian well at Oakland has now
reached q depth Of $50 feet, and is still going
down nj the rate OF fifteen or twenty feet DER
day, the projected depth of contract being 1000